Based on exclusive interviews with the top surviving Khmer Rouge leader, Nuon Chea, this book tells the story of a man who began as an idealistic freedom fighter and wound up involved in one of the worst atrocities of the twentieth century, Cambodia's Killing Fields.

Behind the Killing Fields
A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims

Gina Chon and Sambath Thet

2010 | 212 pages | Cloth $49.95
Asian Studies | Biography | History
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Faceless Father
3. The New World Order
4. The Lost Childhood
5. The Vietnam Factor
6. The Missing Brother
7. The Enemies
8. The Year Zero
9. The Implosion
10. The Rebuilding
11. The Homecoming
12. The Understanding
13. The Killing Fields

Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments